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December 20, 2024

Objects from the Octagon: Archaeological Collections and the Stories They Share

Beginning on January 1st, 2025, The Octagon Earthworks will be open to the public daily for the first time in over a century. What is known today as the Octagon Earthworks is a preserved section of geometric earthworks, including the Octagon, the Observatory Circle, and the Observatory Mound, once part of the larger Newark Earthworks […]

January 30, 2024

2024 Newark Earthwork Open House Dates

Save the Dates! A few times a year, visitors are invited to fully experience all three segments of Newark’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. Inscribed as an UNESCO World Heritage site in 2023, these massive artifacts of creative genius served social, ceremonial and astronomical functions for their builders. The 2024 Open House dates are: Sunday, April 14th […]

July 16, 2022

Newark Earthworks Remnants Walking Tour, July 23, 2022

Join a guided walking tour of portions of the Newark Earthworks on Saturday, July 23 from 9 am to Noon. It will start and end at the Great Circle Museum (455 Hebron Rd., Heath, OH) and will cover about three miles of mostly level terrain on public sidewalks. Walking shoes and a water bottle are […]

July 15, 2022

Newark Earthworks Open House, July 25, 2022

During the Newark Earthworks Open House, visitors are invited to explore and fully experience all three segments of these ancient, expansive earthworks built masterfully by American Indians. The site will be open daylight to dusk, with staff on site to answer questions from Noon–4 p.m. There is no registration or reservations needed for tours. Octagon […]

November 30, 2020

Denison Student Tells the Story of the Newark Earthworks in a Journalistic Comic

May 26, 2020

Amazing artifacts of the Hopewell culture: a virtual tour of the collections of the Ohio History Connection

May 24, 2020

Objects from the Octagon: Archaeological Collections and the Stories They Share

2024 Newark Earthwork Open House Dates

Newark Earthworks Remnants Walking Tour, July 23, 2022

Newark Earthworks Open House, July 25, 2022

Denison Student Tells the Story of the Newark Earthworks in a Journalistic Comic

Amazing artifacts of the Hopewell culture: a virtual tour of the collections of the Ohio History Connection

A Virtual Tour of the Newark Earthworks – a wonder of the ancient world

2020 Octagon Earthworks Open House Dates Announced

Octagon Earthworks

2018 Octagon Earthworks Open House